From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 15:42: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F291737B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail102.csoft.net (lilly.csoft.net [63.111.22.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FCAE43EB7 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zith@lilly.csoft.net) Received: (qmail 41978 invoked by uid 1876); 10 Oct 2002 22:48:02 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:48:02 -0500 From: Nick Slager To: Nick Tonkin Cc: Nathan Kinkade , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware Message-ID: <20021010174802.A39578@zith.net> References: <20021010064239.GC2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nick@rlnt.net on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:30:39AM -0700 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Nick Tonkin (nick@rlnt.net): > Most seem to say that one should specify netgraph bridging while building > VMWare but host-only networking when configuring a virtual machine. > > I've done that (and every other possible combination, I think!) but still > no joy. It's closer than it was but now hangs _after_ the virtual machine > has apparently started to boot (menu buttons change, etc) with: > > Could not get interface address for vmnet1: Cannot assign requested > address. Failed to configure ethernet0 I had this exact problem. I rebuilt the vmware2 port, saying `no' to netgraph bridging, and using host-only networking for the virtual machine. I then enabled bridging for my workstation's ethernet interface. This worked for me, ymmv. Let me know if this helps. Nick "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." -- Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message